Patents by Inventor Kentaro Ode

Kentaro Ode has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20260083626
    Abstract: Provided is a massage machine including: a treatment part including a lateral side abutment body that is movable in a width direction, abuts on a lateral side of the body of a user, and treats the lateral side of the body of the user; a detector that detects abutment of the lateral side abutment body with the body of the user by movement of the lateral side abutment body; and a controller that determines a treatment intensity based on a detection result of the detector and actuates the treatment part at the determined treatment intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2025
    Publication date: March 26, 2026
    Applicant: FUJI MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kentaro ODE, Yoshinori ONO
  • Publication number: 20250186294
    Abstract: A massage machine 100 comprises a detection part 2 and a determination part 32. The detection part 2 detects the pressure of airbag 1. The determination part 32 determines, based on the detection result of detection part 2, the presence or the absence of contact of airbag 1 with a person to be treated. The massage machine 100, when the determination part 32 determines that there is the contact, starts treatment by the airbag 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: FUJI Medical Instruments MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masafumi TAKARABE, Toshihisa YOSHIDA, Kentaro ODE
  • Patent number: 10966899
    Abstract: Provide is an air massage device including a plurality of air bags; an air pump 31 for supplying air into each of the air bags; solenoid valves 32 for switching on-off of air supply into each of the air bags; and a control part for changing an electric input value into the air pump 31 and an amount of the supplied air into each of the air bags per unit time to open and close each of the solenoid valves 32 so as to correspond to this change of the amount of the supplied air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kentaro Ode
  • Patent number: 10729611
    Abstract: A massage machine for providing massage which includes a seat portion on which a person to be treated sits; a backrest portion provided at a rear side of the seat portion; a backrest operation portion for changing an angle of the backrest portion in a range of a standing position to a reclining position which reclines back; and a kneading ball type, a vibration type and/or the roller type and air-bag style massage portions. The massage machine further includes either a stand-by mode for maintaining the reclining position of the backrest portion, or a restoring mode for automatically restoring the backrest portion from the reclining position to the standing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kentaro Ode
  • Patent number: 10617594
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for providing massage with airbags which inflate by the supply of air and press against treatment regions of a human body. An air supply and exhaust device for supplying air to and exhausting air from the airbag is provided with an air pump, regulator, air tank, a solenoid valve, a diaphragm pump, a motor, an air supply speed adjustment valve and control unit for supplying air to the airbag such that the amount of air supplied to the airbag per unit time gradually increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Fujishiro, Kentaro Ode
  • Patent number: 10327979
    Abstract: A chair-type massage machine 100 has: a backrest portion 300 being capable of standing on a seat portion 200 and reclining against the seat portion 200; and at least one heater 850 disposed independently from a base portion 400 which is a lower part of the seat portion 200 through a cable 851.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: FUJI MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihisa Yoshida, Hironori Yasuda, Kentaro Ode
  • Publication number: 20170056280
    Abstract: Provide is an air massage device including a plurality of air bags; an air pump 31 for supplying air into each of the air bags; solenoid valves 32 for switching on-off of air supply into each of the air bags; and a control part for changing an electric input value into the air pump 31 and an amount of the supplied air into each of the air bags per unit time to open and close each of the solenoid valves 32 so as to correspond to this change of the amount of the supplied air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: FUJI MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kentaro Ode
  • Publication number: 20170035647
    Abstract: A chair-type massage machine 100 has: a backrest portion 300 being capable of standing on a seat portion 200 and reclining against the seat portion 200; and at least one heater 850 disposed independently from a base portion 400 which is a lower part of the seat portion 200 through a cable 851.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: Fuji Medical Instruments Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihisa Yoshida, Hironori Yasuda, Kentaro Ode
  • Publication number: 20160317378
    Abstract: An air massage device 1 provided with airbags 30 which inflate by the supply of air and press against treatment regions of a human body, and an air supply and exhaust device 20 for supplying air to and exhausting air from the airbag 30; the air supply and exhaust device 20 is provided with an air supply means (air pump 21, air supply speed adjustment means 24, and control unit 50) for supplying air to the airbag 30 such that the amount of air supplied to the airbag 30 per unit time gradually increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Fuji Medical Instruments Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsuaki Fujishiro, Kentaro Ode
  • Publication number: 20160317382
    Abstract: A chair-type massage machine includes: a seat portion 3 on which a person to be treated sits; a backrest portion 4 provided at a rear side of the seat portion 3; a backrest operation portion 7 for changing an angle of the backrest portion 4 in a range of a standing position to a reclining position which reclines back; and a massage means 21, 22, and 23, wherein the chair-type massage machine 1 includes a selecting means 73, and when individually registered information 61 about a registered massage per person to be treated is reset and the backrest portion 4 takes the reclining position, the selecting means 73 allows either a stand-by mode 73a for maintaining the reclining position of the backrest portion 4, or a restoring mode 73b, 73c for automatically restoring the backrest portion 4 from the reclining position to the standing position, to be selectable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: FUJI MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kentaro Ode
  • Publication number: 20160320924
    Abstract: A chair type massage machine provided with treatment tools for treating prescribed locations of a human body, and also provided with a touch panel constituting a display device for displaying a treatment menu and other selection items and an operation device for selecting and operating the selection items, and a memory device for storing display information relating to selection items to be displayed on the touch panel; wherein at least a portion of the display information is standard display information relating to a standard mode for displaying a plurality of action selection items on the display means, and simple display information relating to a simple mode with fewer action selection items compared to the standard mode, and the chair type massage machine also has a mode switching processing unit for switching between the standard mode and the simple mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Fuji Medical Instruments Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Mizuguchi, Kentaro Ode